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Y Stove Pipe Thimble. No. 89,181. Patented April 20, 1869.

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p EDWARD C. STODDARD AND JOHN YR. HOYT, OF WOODBURYQCON- N E C T'I CUT.

Letters Patent No. 89,181, dated .Ap/ril 20, 1869.

sTovE-PIPE ATTACHMENT.

The Schedule referred tain these Letters Patent and making part of the lame.

To all whom it may concer-n:

Beit known that we, EDWARD O. STODDARD and JOHN R. HOYT, of Woodbury, Litchfield county, Connecticut, have invented a new and improved Stove- Shield; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full,clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the saine, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specication.

Figure 1 represents a vertical longitudinal section of our improved doubler shield.

Figure 2 is a vertical transverse section of the same.

Figure 3 is a vertical longitudinal section of the single shield.

`Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The inventionv relates to a new attachment to stovepipes, which has for its object to prevent the overheating` by the pipes of wooden mantel-pieces, or other combustible devices, near which the pipe may be arranged.

The invention consists in the use of a sheet-metal, or other plate or shield, suspended at the side from the stove-pipe, so that an air-space is formed between the pipe and shield.

The shield cannot become overheated, and will therefore serve as a guard to prevent the overheating and burning of a wooden mantel-piece, or other article.

When the pipe is arranged in very close proximity to the mantel-piece, the shield should be made double to still more insure security against danger from re.

The shield may be provided with hooks or pins to suspend from it articles of clothing to be dried, they being, by the projecting shield, prevented from coming in contact with the hot pipe.

A, lin the drawing, represents a stove-pipe, of suitable construction.

B is a sheet-metal plate, attached to it by means of hooks a a, tted infto staples b, projecting from the pipe, or by other equivalent devices.

An air-space, c, is left between the plate B and the pipe, as shown in fig. 3.

The plate or shield B is interposed between the pipe and mantel-piece to protect the latter, as aforesaid.

The shield may be made double, as in figs. 1 and 2, by securing one plate, O, iiush to the pipe, and riveting the main shield B toits edges, or otherwise fastening the same.

The double shield will still better protect the mantel-piece from heat.

Hooks or pins d rl may be arranged on the shield, as shown, to suspend articles of clothing, or other devices to be dried or warmed.

The air-space formed between the shield and stovepipe forms a passage for circulating air, whereby the shield is kept comparatively cool.

'Having thus described our invention,

What we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

As a new article of manufacture, the single or double stove-shield B, provided with pins or hooks d and adapted to be applied to stove-pipes, for the purpose of protecting mantel-pieces, 85o., from danger of tire, as herein shown and described.

The above specification of our invention signed by .us, this day of 1869.

EDWARD O. STODDARD. JOHN R. HOYT. Witnesses:

DAVID S. BULL, BENJ. FABRIQUE. 

